Completeness of Birth Registration

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: birth-registration-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Completeness of Birth Registration: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	185	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	185	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	18	0
Children under 5 whose birth is registered (%)birth_registrationHeadline	The headline figure: Children under 5 whose birth is registered (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	2.7Ethiopia100.053 share itmiddle 98.4	95	0
Girls (%)femaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 1 decimal	2.6Ethiopia100.055 share itmiddle 98.6	88	16
Boys (%)maleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 1 decimal	2.7Ethiopia100.053 share itmiddle 98.7	89	16

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One edition, covering 185 countries.

Not in this dataset · 40 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManKuwaitMacauMauritiusMicronesiaNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandSouth KoreaTaiwanUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Completeness of Birth Registration (surveys to 2025)

   .PT_CHLD_Y0T4_REG

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: birth-registration-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/birth-registration

Read from UNICEF's own data warehouse rather than the World Bank's copy, which rounds the same figure to zero or one decimal.